Maillane

Maillane
The church of Maillane The church of Maillane
Coat of arms of Maillane Coat of arms
Maillane
Location within Provence-A.-C.d'A. region Maillane
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Bouches-du-Rhône
Arrondissement	Arles
Canton	Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jacqueline Cornillon
Area1	16.77 km2 (6.47 sq mi)
Population (2012)2	2,437
• Density	150/km2 (380/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	13052 / 13910
Elevation	7–17 m (23–56 ft) (avg. 12 m or 39 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Maillane (name in French; Malhana in Occitan language) is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France in the former province of Provence.

Geography

Maillane is located 7 km (4.3 mi) north-west of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence and 15 km (9.3 mi) north-east of Tarascon.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	1,200	—
1800	1,324	+10.3%
1806	1,273	−3.9%
1821	1,386	+8.9%
1831	1,505	+8.6%
1836	1,356	−9.9%
1841	1,430	+5.5%
1846	1,507	+5.4%
1851	1,556	+3.3%
1856	1,522	−2.2%
1861	1,541	+1.2%
1866	1,532	−0.6%
1872	1,480	−3.4%
1876	1,390	−6.1%
1881	1,347	−3.1%
1886	1,342	−0.4%
1891	1,383	+3.1%
1896	1,347	−2.6%
1901	1,373	+1.9%
1906	1,369	−0.3%
1911	1,407	+2.8%
1921	1,325	−5.8%
1926	1,354	+2.2%
1931	1,372	+1.3%
1936	1,308	−4.7%
1946	1,315	+0.5%
1954	1,306	−0.7%
1962	1,354	+3.7%
1968	1,472	+8.7%
1975	1,430	−2.9%
1982	1,571	+9.9%
1990	1,664	+5.9%
1999	1,884	+13.2%
2009	2,283	+21.2%

Personalities

Maillane was the birthplace of the 19th century poet Frédéric Mistral (1904 Nobel Prize in literature).

See also

• Communes of the Bouches-du-Rhône department

References

• INSEE